Querido DiálogoEcológico: ¿Cómo es eso que botar las arenas higiénicas en el inodoro haafectado negativamente las nutrias del mar? ¿Cuál es la manera responsable dedeshacerse del desecho de gatos?
Querido DiálogoEcológico: ¿Cómopodemos conseguir que las cafeterias escolares ofrezcan alimentos más sano ymás ecológicamente puros a nuestros niños? No tengo tiempo de empaquetar unalmuerzo sano todos los días.
The UK-based nonprofit BirdLife International has launched an ambitious new campaign, dubbed the Species Champions Initiative, to save 189 critically endangered bird species around the world from extinction over the next five years
A new report published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives found that exposure of developing human fetuses to such chemical compounds as PFOS and PFOA, often used in non-stick cookware, may reduce birth weight and size.
Now that many schools have stopped selling sodas and other unhealthy vending machine items to their students, improving the nutritional quality of cafeteria food is on the agenda of many parents and school administrators.
The Greens are not just the boring legumes that kids love to hate at meal time. The Greens are animated characters that represent the emerging class of environmentally conscious households.
Worry over endocrine health as ingredients in personal-care products are shown to be hormonally active. And it’s not just moisturizing lotion: cosmetics, fragrances, deodorant and even sun block need closer scrutiny. It can make average consumers feel they are awash in a sea, or at a least bathtub full, of toxic chemicals.
A study recently released by the World Bank’s Global Environment Facility points out the hypocrisy in the Kyoto Protocol whereby countries that have cut their forests and are now engaging in reforestation efforts are rewarded with so-called "carbon credits" for their efforts, while those that have worked to preserve intact forests receive no such benefit.
Environmentalists are praising an announcement by the federal government last week to spend $848 million to bolster efforts in five major cities to cut traffic congestion and improve overall urban transportation performance.
According to Dr. Melissa Miller of the California Department of Fish and Game, cat feces can contain Toxoplasma gondii, a parasite that gets into feline systems from the eating of infected rodents, birds or other small animals.
Querido DiálogoEcológico: He leido que los coches híbridos son en realidad menos "ecológicos" que incluso los Hummers, porque tienen dos motores y baterías que hacen mucho daño al ambiente. ¿Es verdad lo que se dice?
Querido DiálogoEcológico: ¿Qué incentivos en materia de impuestos existen para estimular el uso de productos ecológicos—tanto para individuos como negocios?
